Home Sick Quotes

“Why did we find the babies of other animals so cute? Ducklings. Kittens. Puppies. A lot of the time the behaviour we cooed over was just early play versions of hunting behaviour. Playing with ropes was practice for breaking small necks. The squeak of a toy mimicked the panicked cry of prey. Somewhere in our mammalian brains we see this and think 'aww!”
― Rhiannon Grist, Home Sick